Joyce v. Sisk

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

November 17, 1898, appellee made application as owner of section 134, block 3, in Fisher County, to purchase as additional land the land in controversy, which is the west half of section 136 in same block and within the prescribed radius, it having been placed on the market in Fisher County as dry agricultural land at $1.50 per acre. The Commissioner of the General Land Office awarded the land to him, notwithstanding the previous application of appellant, who was an actual settler thereon, to purchase the entire section. This action was brought by appellee to eject…